Confident Blue Jackets are surging

12:13 AM,
Mar. 22, 2013

Written by

Kevin Allen
USA TODAY

New general manager Jarmo Kekalainen views the Columbus Blue Jackets' recent surge as a product of confidence and cohesiveness rather than any tricks he had up his sleeve.

He had no magic dust with him when he left Finland to take the job.

"It's so great in team sports when the players all of a sudden start to believe in themselves and each other," he said. "If you run a marathon in 2:30, you aren't going to run it in 2:10 no matter how spirited you are or how great the opportunity is that day. It's not going to happen. But with a team sport, anything is possible." ...